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Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce*

Summary: Maps arbitrary theta-joins to MapReduce via a simple key-equality data-flow model; supports non-equi joins without changing MR. Introduces 1-Bucket-Theta, a randomized, memory-aware algorithm needing only input cardinality, near-optimal for many joins. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4446
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00014255717
Overall Rank
1,073 | 92.55%
DOI
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4,161 Scalable Distributed Stream Join Processing 2015 SIGMOD 6.3883784e-05
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4,752 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 5.9396804e-05
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6,502 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0288901e-05
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9,520 PAXQuery: Parallel Analytical XML Processing 2015 SIGMOD 4.3282242e-05
10,970 Low-Latency Adaptive Distributed Stream Join System Based on a Flexible Join Model 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073570328
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442 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00023095823
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